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layout: page
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category-page: intermediate
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category-title: Intermediate commands
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author: Joy Albertini
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tags: directory user shell
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title: chsh
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previous-page: pages/cmd/interm/chroot.html
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next-page: pages/cmd/interm/cowsay.html
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The <code>chsh</code> command can be used to change the following user's login shell properties:
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<ul>
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<li>chenage Password of the user</li>
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<li> shell local directory</li>
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<li>Full name of the user</li>
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<li>Office location</li>
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<li>Office phone</li>
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<li>home phone </li>
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</ul>
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<pre>
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chsh [-flag] user
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</pre>
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<h3>Flags</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><b>-s</b>: set shell as the login shell</li>
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<li><b>-l</b>: change the symbolic link and not the file or directory referred
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by the symbolic link.
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</li>
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<li><b>-R</b>: change the ownership for each file in a folder, if encounter symbolic link
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it will change the owenership of that symbolic link,
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and the directory/file referred in the symbolic link, but the directory
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is not further transversed.
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</li>
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<li><b>-RH</b>: change the ownership for each file in a folder, if a symbolic link is
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encountered, it will change the owenership of that symbolic link,
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the directory/file referred in the symbolic link, and all the
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directories are further transversed.
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</li>
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<li><b>-RL</b>: if a symbolic link referencing a file of type directory
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is specified on the command line or encountered during the traversal of a file hierarchy,
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the chown command will change the user ID (and group ID, if specified) of the directory
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referenced by the symbolic link and all files in the file hierarchy below it.
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</li>
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<li><b>-RP</b>: changes the ownership for each file in a folder, if encounter symbolic link it
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will change the owenership of that symbolic link, but will not change the
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the directory/file referred in the symbolic link, and
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the directory is not further transversed.
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</li>
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</ul>
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